district-lady

Updated: May 5, 2025

"Ah, Betsy!" said a sick woman to a wealthier sister the other day, "it's of some use being well off; you won't be obliged when you die to have a district-lady worriting you with a chapter." But the district-lady has others to "worrit" in life besides the sick. Mrs.

E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton - Modern Women and What is Said of Them: A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)